The Canadian Parliament might also
consider eliminating the threat to the matrimonial bond
inherent in "No Fault" Divorce. Permitting one
marriage partner to unilaterally end a joint relationship
with impunity is very destabilizing to Canadian families,
and creates too much business in Family Law . We think
Canadians still get married for more reasons than just
establishing a temporary monogamy within which to
share spousal benefits and to establish paternity claims.
We think Canadians still think of marriage as a
relationship of Trust and security, in the tradition of the
oft spoken vow of "For Better or Worse".
With "No Fault
Divorce", there is no remedy when the Trust
placed in a "Spouse" is breached. There is
therefore no deterrent for matrimonial predators who by
becoming a "spouse" have free license 24/7 to take children,
inheritance and family assets, and hold these hostage from
the distraught father. There is no fund
established with the "saved" litigation costs to insure the
victim of Divorce as there is in other "no-fault"
schemes. Since ~1972 Canadian legislation
has been gutted of such dearly held values by "No Fault
Divorce" and has been devolved into a division of assets
and other financial obligations. Only the
lawyers gain by putting so much more within their grasp.
We think there is substantial merit in:
Reestablishing the "Fault" in
Divorce legislation. If couples prefer to live
under a cohabitation agreement there is nothing to
prevent them. But if a couple wishes to live as a
"married" couple, why should legislation preclude them
from living as "married" in the historic sense?
Reestablishing the Enticement laws,
providing the injured spouse with claims against third
parties who entice their spouse to end their marriage.
This one change will make the ubiquitous father-hatred
groups unprofitable to run, and leave families to
succeed or fail of their own accord. It also gives
children a chance at recouping their inheritance from
these professional Misandrists
Reestablishing the Seduction laws,
providing the injured spouse with claims against third
parties who seduce their spouse into adulterous
relationships.
We apologize that the
following figures have not been developed for the Province of BC
specifically. We hope to do this over time. We do know,
however that women often move to BC from Alberta and the rest of Canada
to have their divorces done here in BC where the
misandry of the Family Courts will
maximize their powers to destroy their husbands.
Children from fatherless homes account
for:
63% of youth suicides. (Source: US Dept.
of Health & Human Services, Bureau of the Census).
71% of pregnant teenagers. (Source: US
Dept. of Health & Human Services)
90% of all homeless and runaway
children.
70% of juveniles in state-operated
institutions come from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. Dept. of
Justice, Special Report, Sept 1988)
85% of all children that exhibit
behavioral disorders. (Source: Center for Disease Control).
80% of rapists motivated with displaced
anger. (Source: Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol. 14, p. 403-26,
1978).
71% of all high school dropouts.
(Source: National Principals Association Report on the State of High
Schools).
75% of all adolescent patients in
chemical abuse centers. (Source: Rainbows for all God's Children).
85% of all youths sitting in prisons.
(Source: Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of
Corrections 1992).
Children from fatherless
homes are:
11 times more likely to exhibit violent
behavior than children from intact "married" homes.
5 times more likely to commit suicide.
32 times more likely to runaway.
20 times more likely to have behavioral
disorders.
14 times more likely to commit rape.
9 times more likely to drop out of high
school.
10 times more likely to abuse chemical
substances.
9 times more likely to end up in
state-operated institutions.
20 times more likely to end up in
prison.
"37.9% of
fathers have no access/visitation rights."
(Source: p.6, col.II, para. 6, lines 4 & 5, Census Bureau
P-60, #173, Sept 1991.)
"40% of mothers reported that they had interfered with the
non-custodial father's visitation on at least one occasion, to punish
the ex-spouse." (Source: p. 449, col. II, lines 3-6, (citing
Fulton) Frequency of visitation by Divorced Fathers; Differences in
Reports by Fathers and Mothers. Sanford Braver et al, Am. J. of
Orthopsychiatry, 1991.)
"Overall,
approximately 50% of mothers "see no value in the father's continued
contact with his children...."
(Source: Surviving the Breakup, Joan Kelly & Judith
Wallerstein, p. 125) Only 11% of mothers value their husband's input
when it comes to handling problems with their kids. Teachers & doctors
rated 45%, and close friends & relatives rated %16.(Source: EDK
Associates survey of 500 women for Redbook Magazine. Redbook, November
1994, p. 36)
"The former
spouse (mother) was the greatest obstacle to having more frequent
contact with the children." (Source:
Increasing our understanding of fathers who have infrequent contact with
their children, James Dudley, Family Relations, Vol. 4, p. 281, July
1991.)
"A clear
majority (70%) of fathers felt that they had too little time with their
children." (Source: Visitation and the
Noncustodial Father, Mary Ann Kock & Carol Lowery, Journal of Divorce,
Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 54, Winter 1984.)
"Very few of
the children were satisfied with the amount of contact with their
fathers, after divorce." (Source:
Visitation and the Noncustodial Father, Koch & Lowery, Journal of
Divorce and Remarriage, Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 50, Winter 1984.)
"Feelings of anger towards their former spouses hindered effective
involvement on the part of fathers; angry mothers would sometimes
sabotage father's efforts to visit their children." (Source:
Ahrons and Miller, Am. Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Vol. 63. p. 442, July
1993.)
"Mothers may
prevent visits to retaliate against fathers for problems in their
marital or post-marital relationship."
(Source: Seltzer, Shaeffer & Charing, Journal of Marriage & the Family,
Vol. 51, p. 1015, November 1989.)
In a study: "Visitational
Interference - A National Study" by Ms. J Annette Vanini, M.S.W. and
Edward Nichols, M.S.W., it was found that 77% of non-custodial fathers
are NOT able to "visit" their children, as ordered by the court, as a
result of "visitation interference" perpetuated by the custodial parent.
In other words, non-compliance with court ordered visitation is three
times the problem of non-compliance with court ordered child support and
impacts the children of divorce even more. Originally published Sept.
1992
Child Support
Information from multiple
sources show that only 10% of all non-custodial fathers fit the
"deadbeat dad" category: 90% of the fathers with joint custody paid the
support due. Fathers with visitation rights pay 79.1%; and 44.5% of
those with NO visitation rights still financially support their
children. (Source: Census Bureau report. Series P-23, No. 173).
Additionally, of those not paying support, 66% are not doing so because
they lack the financial resources to pay (Source: GAO report:
GAO/HRD-92-39 FS).
The following is sourced from: Technical Analysis Paper No. 42, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Income Security
Policy, Authors: Meyer and Garansky.
Custodial mothers who receive a support
award: 79.6%
Custodial fathers who receive a support
award: 29.9%
Non-custodial mothers who totally
default on support: 46.9%
Non-custodial fathers who totally
default on support: 26.9%
Judges and their elite
Star
Chamber entrench their power and status to rule over Canadians with
impunity and unbridled
narcissism.
Feminist and Homosexual Activists as Judges effect
their political agenda without the consent of the Canadian demographic.
They with full knowledge and intent (scripted in the sixties & seventies
by their Activist writers) circumvent due democratic process and
knowingly contravene the founding legal constructs of Canada in the BNA
& in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Activist Judges happily
and routinely breach the Trust placed in them by their employer, the
Canadian Taxpayer.
Lawyers routinely Entice into self-destruction and
financial rape vast numbers of families entering their doors.
Because of the Statutory self-regulation of the BC Law Society, we know
of no limiting factor to cap the Activism of the Judiciary other than
prosecuting Judges and Lawyers who exceed the powers granted them by
Statute.
The BC Law Society pimps BC women, and use them as
their hookers. With others (also conspicuously funded by the
Taxpayer), Law Society members instruct women to hook fathers and
families into the Courts and the financial ruin a "Legal Marriage"
entails. Children NEED this threat to their security to be
EXTERMINATED.
Faced with the entrenched Father Hatred and
Affirmative Action of the burgeoning civil service, boys and young men
despair. Having no vision for a Future or a university education,
they become prone to fulfill the Father Hatred prophecies of BC
university's Women's Studies faculties and Feminist Activists.
"Children of single parents were at
higher risk of physical abuse and of all types of neglect and were
overrepresented among seriously injured, moderately injured, and
endangered children. Compared with their counterparts living with both
parents, children in single parent families had:
a 77% greater risk of being
harmed by physical abuse (using the stringent Harm Standard) and a
63% greater risk of experiencing any countable physical abuse (using
the Endangerment Standard);
an 87% greater risk of being
harmed by physical neglect and a 165% greater risk of experiencing
any countable physical neglect;
a 74% greater risk of being
harmed by emotional neglect and a 64% greater risk of experiencing
any countable emotional neglect;
a 220% (or more than three
times) greater risk of being educationally neglected;
an approximately 80% greater
risk of suffering serious injury or harm from abuse or neglect;
an approximately 90% greater
risk of receiving moderate injury or harm as a result of child
maltreatment; and
a 120% (or more than two times)
greater risk of being endangered by some type of child abuse or
neglect."
2006-11-10
Top judges rebuke Tories Federal plan would allow police to help
appoint judiciary - workopolis.com; "Beverley
McLachlin, Canada's Chief Justice, along with a powerful council of
the country's top judges issued an unprecedented rebuke yesterday to
Justice Minister Vic Toews for hatching a plan to arbitrarily change
the way judges are chosen. The Canadian Judicial Council
expressed dismay that Mr. Toews is planning to introduce "significant
changes to the composition and functioning of the Judicial Advisory
Committees," secret groups which are set up in each region to vet
candidates for the 1,100 federal judgeships across the country.
Chief Justice McLachlin, who chairs the council, urged Mr. Toews to
include the judiciary and key legal bodies in any discussion of
changes to the committee vetting process."
We
need in the very least some kind of JUDICIAL ACCOUNTABILITY ACT
which will look something like::
Divide the Law Society into two groups of
Judges and Practicing Lawyers to protect the Lawyers who would
make Cases against Judges. There would be some Law Society
Members who may practice as Barristers, and some as Solicitors,
but a Judge must RETIRE from the Practice of Law and
become unable to affect the Law Society while they act as a
Judge. On removal of a Judge for
Judicial Activism,
the Law Society may deny their return to Practice from
Retirement for specified cause, such as the case made during
an unsuccessful Criminal Charge of
Breach of Trust or Treason.
The Judges naturally divide into two bodies,
the Provincial and Federal Judicial Societies to parallel the
Provincial and Federal Courts. Membership in both Judicial
Societies must be precluded. Federal Judges would be tried
by Provincial Judges according to the
JUDICIAL ACCOUNTABILITY ACT, and the Provincial Judges would
be tried by the Federal Judges. They could be tried both
in Tort and in Criminal Court for
Breach of Trust and for
Treason.
Make Judicial Appointments for a FIXED TERM
of no more than five years (Jimmy Pattison where are you when we
need you?)
Judicial Re-Appointment must meet a Test for
Judicial Re-Appointment which demonstrates the prescribed
Impartiality (that is an Activism Free record.) and Non-Infamy
with the Electorate.
Automatic Temporary Suspension Without Pay
for a Judge who is going to Trial in Tort or in Criminal
Court, pending its outcome.
Eradication
of
Freemasonry from the Judiciary and Law Societies. Both
are granted special privileges by Parliamentary Statute which
they receive In Trust.. Judicial Candidates and sitting
Judges must be vetted for Occult
practices resulting in Public Safety concerns such as
Pedophilia.
Pedophilia is an established part of Occult worship
(See
Malachi Martin among others) and is reported to be a
tolerated practice of some high ranking Judges.
Trial by Jury of Judges before non-allied and
non-associated Judges, e.g.. Federal
Judges
tried before Provincial Judges, visa versa..
NO SPECIAL
PROSECUTORS for Judges or other Public Servants being
tried.
Under the "federal" division of powers in the BNA
(Constitution Act, 1867)) Education falls into the Provincial
domain. A parallel Provincial Statute to amend the licensing
and Suspension of Teachers
would be necessary to stop the present use of our Schools for
Political Indoctrination by Activists. See also
Four Missions
Natural
Grandparents Rights Proposals; Social Works
& Foster Parents get funding for raising other people's
children, Grandparents don't because they're a "Kinship Family".
See Saskatoon G I F T (Grandparents Involved Full Time)
Dorothy Bird: (306) 382-3650
We
say that's WRONG, and Grans should not be jeopardizing their
financial stability to raise an unexpected New Arrival.
2008-01-09_Documentary to focus on kinship families
"Tammy Brockhaus, with her grandson, Alex, is one of thousands
raising a grandchild in Canada. W-5 is airing a documentary on the
issue of grandparents raising grandchildren on Feb. 9 .. Brockhaus
is a 58-year-old widow who has been raising her six-year-old
grandson, Alex, since he was 30 days old. While the last six years
have proved to be a challenge for her, Brockhaus,
who also has three grown children, has found fulfillment raising a
child the second time around."
Removal of judges from office, Oklahoma
Constitution
(a) In addition to other
methods and causes prescribed by the Constitution and laws,
the judges of any court, exercising judicial power under the
provisions of Article VII, or under any other provision, of
the Constitution of Oklahoma, shall be subject to removal
from office, or to compulsory retirement from office, for
causes herein specified, by proceedings in the Court on the
Judiciary.
(b) Cause for removal from
office shall be: Gross neglect of duty; corruption in
office; habitual drunkenness; commission while in office of
any offense involving moral turpitude;
gross partiality in office;
oppression in office; or other grounds as may be
specified hereafter by the legislature.
(c) Cause for compulsory
retirement from office, with or without compensation, shall
be mental or physical disability preventing the proper
performance of official duty, or incompetence to perform the
duties of the office"
"The Family Courts
are <generally> a bunch of second rate hangers-on
... build each other's businesses through
referrals...Family Law is a <parasitic> self-sustaining
Industry"
Habeas
Corpus : "literally, "you
may have the body". A Habeas
Corpus is a legal writ that protects an individual against arbitrary
imprisonment by requiring that any person arrested be brought before
a court for formal charge. If the charge is considered to be valid,
the person must submit to trial; if not, the person goes free. When
the law is suspended, then individuals can be imprisoned
indefinitely and without charge."
.....
"This
is one of those moments when you want to grab liberals by the lapels
and demand, "Well, what did you expect?" ... A group called the
National Center for Men has filed a lawsuit they are calling "Roe v.
Wade for Men." ... More than three decades
ago Roe vs. Wade gave women control of their reproductive lives but
nothing in the law changed for men. Women can now have sexual
intimacy without sacrificing reproductive choice. Women now have the
freedom and security to enjoy lovemaking without the fear of forced
procreation. Women now have control of their lives after an
unplanned conception. But men are routinely forced to give up
control, forced to be financially responsible for choices only women
are permitted to make, forced to relinquish reproductive choice as
the price of intimacy."
COMMENT: Roe
V. Wade was a "Femi-Narcissistic" decision, looking after the
interests of the Mother only. The principal established there
established was extrapolated into a Mother's "murder rights"
expressed in minimal sentences when murdering their children.
Equal Parenting eliminates much of this.
Father dealt difficult hand by the system
"Even last week, when the family court file of
Elaine and Leo Campione was released to the press -- in
significant measure because Mr. Campione didn't oppose the
media's bid to see it .. There is, to be frank, an
underlying perspective of feminist oppression from which all
else springs. .. Women are seen first as victims --
generally of male power and particularly of husband power -- and
presumed to be truth-tellers and good mothers until proven
otherwise. The starting point for men is that they are abusers
and deadbeat dads in the making unless they can prove the
contrary, and if it takes years for them to demonstrate that, oh
well."
Forgiveness is NOT Compulsory,
Compulsory Forgiveness is the Second Victimization
It is truly incredible what these "Men of
God" claim to be "Biblical" or "Christian".
Sadly Churches, supposedly a Refuge for the
wounded, regularly become a
"Den of Thieves and Robbers". The
"Money Changers" have become the "Book
Sellers".
1
And he said to his disciples, "Temptations
to sin are
sure to come, but woe to the one through
whom they come! 2
It would be better for him if a millstone
were hung around his neck and he were cast
into the sea than that he should cause one
of these little ones to sin. 3
Pay attention to yourselves!
If your
brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents,
forgive him, 4
and if
he sins against you seven times in the day,
and turns to you seven times, saying, 'I
repent,' you must forgive him."
Luke 17 (ESV)
7
"Woe to the world for
temptations to sin!
For it is necessary that temptations
come, but woe to the one by whom the
temptation comes! ....
15
"If
your brother sins against you go and
tell him his fault,
between you and him alone. If he
listens to you, you have gained your
brother. 16
But if he does not listen, take one
or two others along with you, that
every
charge may be established by the
evidence of two or three witnesses.
...
21
Then
Peter came up and said to him,
"Lord, how often will my brother sin
against me, and I forgive him? As
many as seven times?" 22
Jesus said to him, "I do not say to
you seven times, but seventy times
seven!
23 "Therefore
the kingdom of heaven may be
compared to a king who wished to
settle accounts with his servants.
24 When he began to settle,
one was brought to him who owed him
ten thousand talents 25 And since he
could not pay, his master ordered
him to be sold, with his wife and
children and all that he had, and
payment to be made. 26 So the
servant fell on his knees, imploring
him,
'Have
patience with me, and I will pay you
everything.'
27 And out of pity for
him, the master of that servant
released him and forgave him the
debt.
28 But when
that same servant went out, he found
one of his fellow servants who owed
him a hundred denarii, and
seizing him, he began to choke him,
saying, 'Pay what you owe.' 29
So his fellow servant fell down and
pleaded with him,
'Have patience with me, and I will
pay you.' 30 He refused
and went and put him in prison until
he should pay the debt. 31
When his fellow servants saw what
had taken place, they were greatly
distressed, and they went and
reported to their master all that
had taken place. 32 Then his
master summoned him and said to him,
'You
wicked servant! I forgave you all
that debt because you pleaded with
me. 33 And should not you have had
mercy on your fellow servant, as I
had mercy on you?'
34 And in anger his master
delivered him to the jailers, until
he should pay all his debt. 35
So also my heavenly Father will do
to every one of you, if you do not
forgive your brother from your
heart."
Matthew 18 (ESV)
No
wonder Pedophiles love to hang out in
Churches!!! Dobson & Co,'s
"Garbage In, Garbage Out" (GIGO)
products pervert Biblical vocabulary, pervert
the
Rights of the Afflicted, protect the Perps,
distract Victims from seeking remedies for their
losses, and burden already tormented victims of
rape and
sexual
abuse by
"Blaming the Victim" and sending them on an
inner quest of SELF-scrutiny trapping the Victim
into a decent into various
Dissociative Disorders,
Compulsive Lying,
"Passive" Aggression, & deeper
Mental Illness like
Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD).
We are pleased to tell you however, having
scrutinized Dobson's references to the Bible,
that these
views
are far from "Biblical" and are in fact a
malicious compilation of Half-Truths carefully
selected and arranged to teach an ANTI-Biblical
position that precludes the Biblical pursuit of
Vindication and
Restoration of losses either by the Victim
themselves or by their Appointee, the "Kinsman
Redeemer". In the event of a
Victim's incapacitation, the Bible teaches
that a
Kinsmen Redeemer was to pursue the
prescribed rightful remedies against all wrongs
on the Victim's behalf.
"Listen,
you priests, to this warning .. I will
spread on your faces the excrement of
these animals you offer me, ...
where the excrement goes will I send
you!"
Malachi, ~ 430 BC
DATELINE:
"The Letter", Liz Seccuro's Vindication
following her Rapist's Repentance
"Twenty years
after sexually attacking
Liz Seccuro while both were
students at the
University of Virginia in
Charlottesville,
William Beebe -- a recovering
alcoholic who had wrestled for years
with whether making amends would
further injure
Seccuro-- sent her
a letter of apology. Via e-mail, the
Associated Press reported, Beebe
acknowledged to
Seccuro
that he had raped her.
She responded by contacting
authorities in Charlottesville and
in Las Vegas, where Beebe lived.
Beebe was arrested. In spite of his
e-mail confession, <his
lawyer>
denied the rape, but eventually he
pled guilty to a lesser charge of
aggravated sexual battery. The plea
is believed to be in exchange for
Beebe's cooperation with an
investigation of others involved in
the attack. Sentencing is scheduled
for March 15.
Dateline asks the following
question, which demand, we think, the
following answers.
Was Beebe
right, after 20 years, to contact
Seccuro to apologize?
YES!!!!!
Or did his
effort to
make amends lead to greater harm?
NO!!! It was the beginning of
her Vindication, and
a quantum leap in her Recovery
Was
Seccuro right to press charges
after so long and in the face of obvious
remorse?
Yes, to prove (i.e.. Test
/ Exercise / Strengthen)
Beebe's Repentance.
Is it possible
to forgive and to demand justice at the
same time?". No,
Forgiving IS Forgetting.
Forgiveness IS Reconciliation.
Meanwhile the Victim can - and probably
should - pursue Vindication and
extend or withdraw
GRACE (unmerited favour) until the
Fruits of Repentance are born by the
Offender (eg.
Luke 3:7-14 ) Once Vindicated and
Recompensed, the Victim can - and
probably should - Forgive,
"seventy times seven". (eg
Luke 17:3-4 and
Matt 18:21-35 )
Compulsory Forgiveness is routinely taught in some Churches, the effect of
which is to keep Victims of Sexual Abuse quite, and to
"Keep the Secret".
We will attempt to pull together more information on why teachings of this sort
been so destructive to Victims of Sexual Abuse.
Dear Pastor
I am writing quickly about the
topic of “Forgiveness” about which you have preached twice. .. the
overhead in the Sermon said that “Forgiveness is NOT Reconciliation”.
This is one of a cluster of falsehoods and sloppy teaching popularized
by various authors, notably Neil Anderson, which is clearly
anti-Biblical, and by being anti-Biblical is highly destructive. Please
note from your Parable example (Matt 18), that the Small Debtor
acknowledged his Debt and was asking for more time to repay the Small
Creditor / Large Debtor. Note also that the King, the Large Creditor,
who had formerly forgiven the Large Debtor / Small Creditor,
“un-forgave” the Large Debtor when he discovered a condition of
forgiveness, had not been met. He found the Large Debtor / Small
Creditor had not been also been merciful with the Small Debtor in
repayment of the small debt, nor had he forgiven the Small Debtor of an
unpayable debt. The injunctions following the Parable to “forgive
seventy times seven” is of course in the context of a Creditor and his
mercy or forgiveness with a repentant Debtor.
What I hope you will see is that the answer for what to do with an
Unrepentant Debtor is wrongly taught as “Forgiveness” in pulp
Christianity with terrible consequences. What should be taught is not
forgiveness, but “Grace”. It may be that it is necessary to teach both
Forgiveness and Grace (UNMERITED favor) together. Forgiveness IS
reconciliation. Grace invites reconciliation, but is NOT reconciliation.
For “Without REPENTANCE there CAN BE NO FORGIVENESS”.
Supposing you would agree with me that we should forgive as God has
forgiven us, and we refer to the Bible for direction, the logic becomes
pretty simple. .. Lots of problems go away if we first rely
on the Bible, and fill in the gaps later with outside information. I’m
sure it’s not a lot of fun being a Preacher sometimes, but as such,
you wind up being the point of contact for people like myself, who have
witnessed the harm done by false teaching and feel obliged by James 3
and Jude to take issue with it. The Christian press, by the way,
commonly deters members from taking heed of James 3 and Jude, because
they have a vested interest in what I believe to be willful deceit.
James 3, of course is not about gossip against the Preacher, as they
would have you believe, but about the importance of scrutinizing the
Pulpit and its “tongue”, or “rudder”, the Preacher. How great a fire is
started by just a small flame! Jude is chastising churches for not
taking issue with the “false teachers” roaming about in our midst. Both
James & Jude were biological half-brothers of Jesus himself, and both
were very succinct and straightforward in their letters. If you want to
know what the Bible says, by the way, it would be good to stick to the
word for word translations like KJV, NASB, RSV, ESV, NKJ.
Perhaps the quickest way to provide a framework to work from is to
recapitulate what the Gospel IS before going into the Deceptions. The
Gospel is something like this: John the Baptist went about saying
“Repent and be Baptized for the Forgiveness of your Sins … Repent …. Be
Reconciled to God”, etc. Having acknowledged our culpability for Sin we
have a problem! We have a Debt so great we cannot possibly repay it. The
Good News is that God so loved us Debtors that he paid the Ransom of our
unpayable indebtedness himself, cancelling our Debt, telling us then to
“forgive others as he has forgiven us” (that is CONDITIONALLY!). Having
been forgiven, we are RECONCILED to God, even being adopted as “sons” by
virtue of the sufficiency of Jesus’ gift and becoming “Co-Heirs” with
Christ. It is clear, I think, that Forgiveness is CONDITIONAL on
repentance, and Forgiveness and Reconciliation are always concurrent. We
rejoice that we are Forgiven, and are now Reconciled. It is nonsensical
to rejoice that we are Forgiven, but have more to do before we are
Reconciled.
Unfortunately the teaching from Neil Anderson, Henry Cloud, & John
Townsend that Christians are to “Forgive” by ending relationships, and
then imposing “Consequences” while “forgiving” them has deeply
penetrated Church Culture. The Gospel is that by being
FORGIVEN by God, we are RECONCILED to God, and by being reconciled THERE
ARE NO CONSEQUENCES we must bear. We have been FORGIVEN. We are
RECONCILED without price. It is the free gift of God.
Anderson, Cloud & Townsend teach three perversions of the Good News I’ll
note here are:
Forgiveness is Compulsory
(without the condition of Repentance).
Forgiveness is not
Reconciliation
Forgiveness imposes
Consequences.
If Forgiveness is compulsory, there
is no separation of the sheep from the goats, or the Wheat from the
Tares. God is compelled to “forgive” and there will be no Judgment. All
will be Forgiven. The Unrepentant will live forever with the Repentant
in God’s New Creation.
If Forgiveness is not
Reconciliation, then there was no purpose in God’s pursuing
Reconciliation with us, and providing the “free gift” of his Son.
Although God has “Forgiven” us, we are not Reconciled to God, and we all
Wheat, Tares, sheep, goats, whatever, are barred from God’s presence
until we complete our Reconciliation somehow, and are otherwise doomed
to the same fate of eternal isolation from the One who has “Forgiven”
us, but not reconciled with us.
If Forgiveness imposes Consequences, then Christ’s sufferings are
insufficient to forgive sin, and God’s “Free Gift” isn’t free at all. We
must “complete” Christ’s’ imperfect Gift by perfecting it with our own
suffering of the Consequences of our own Sin which will be imposed on us
by the God who “forgave us” but didn’t “reconcile” with us.
I hope you will understand what I’m trying to say here. The answers for
the question, “What does one do then if the Offender doesn’t Repent?” is
NOT found in “Forgiving” them as Anderson, Cloud and Townsend teach. The
answer is more properly found in the extension of GRACE to the
Unrepentant Debtor, and the unhappy acceptance of a broken relationship
which cannot reconciled unilaterally.
Yours, <Member>
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